James Brown (senator)

James Brown (11 September 1766-7 April 1835) was a US Senator from Louisiana from 5 February 1813 to 4 March 1817 (succeeding Thomas Posey and preceding William C.C. Claiborne) and from 4 March 1819 to 10 December 1823 (succeeding Eligius Fromentin and preceding Josiah S. Johnston). He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
James Brown was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1766, the son of immigrants from Northern Ireland and the brother of John Brown. He became a lawyer in Frankfort, Kentucky, and he commanded a company of Virginia sharpshooters in an expedition against the Native Americans in 1789. From 1792 to 1796, he served as Secretary of State of Kentucky, and he moved to New Orleans shortly after the Louisiana Purchase. He became one of the wealthiest plantation and slave owners on the German Coast, and some of his slaves joined in a failed 1811 slave uprising, the largest slave uprising in American history. In 1812, he was elected to the US Senate to finish Jean Noel Destrehan's unexpired term, and he served from 1813 to 1817 and from 1819 to 1823. From 1824 to 1829, he served as ambassador to France, and he died in Philadelphia in 1835.